The Omniscient Breasts

“Imagine a female pov character is going along about her protagonist adventure, seeing things from her perspective of the world as written in third person. She hears, sees, considers, and makes decisions and reacts based on her view of the world and what she is aware of and encounters. Abruptly, a description is dropped into the text of her secondary sexual characteristics usually in the form of soft-focus Playboy-Magazine-style sexualized kitten-bunny-I-would-fuck-her-in-a-heartbeat lustrous-eyes-and-nipples phrases. Her breasts have just become omniscient breasts.” Kate Elliott writes more about writing and reading the male gaze at SF Signal. (via our own SF Editor James!)

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Graveyard Shift Sisters recommends a new horror web series coming out this fall, “BFFs.” A bloodier response to Stranger Things with two female leads, Sasha Lennox as Wrenn Starr and Sterling James playing Celeste Michaels, BFFs teaser trailer captures a youthful spirit that I don’t see much in current television shows or films. It has a grounded vibe fueled by its two tweenagers, free to explore the gritty textures of the outdoors and its potential for creative, improvised ingenuity. The twist is, BFFs also lays bare nightmares coming true; those debilitating what-if’s that probably invented the helicopter parent.”

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Elle O’Brien shares romance novel titles and author names generated by a text-generating neural network. “I gathered over 20,000 Harlequin Romance novel titles and gave them to a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence that learns the structure of text. It’s powerful enough to string together words in a way that seems almost human. 90% human. The other 10% is all wackiness. I was not disappointed with what came out. I even photoshopped some of my favorites into existence (the author names are synthesized from machine learning, too).” (Thanks, Andrezo!)